Chapter 46 Underground Supermarket (6)
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[Unfortunately, level: underground supermarket, failed to clear]
Wang Linlin was still in shock when she heard this.
What's going on... didn't he escape? The two people around him are fine too...
Just when she was confused, Yi Han patted her shoulder and smiled.
Somehow, ever since she woke up from her coma, she always felt that this big guy had a very creepy aura, which made her a little timid for no reason... She had barely offset this effect because of her anger before, but now that she was standing at the official exit of the checkpoint, Wang Linlin felt quite uncomfortable being stared at by him.
Yi Han patted her on the shoulder, then gestured for her to look behind her with an inexplicable look.
Wang Linlin turned around in confusion.
Standing behind him was Jian Lin, who was always so gentle and low-key that he had little presence. At this moment, the young man was holding a book in one hand and a dagger in the other. His originally gentle and good-looking face was inexplicably a little creepy.
What on earth are these two people... ?
She still didn't react, her eyes staring blankly at Jian Lin, and then it was as if everything in front of her eyes was blurred.
The little brother's eyes suddenly turned pitch black, the whites of his eyes disappeared, as if the entire eyeball had turned into a black hole.
Drops of bright red blood flowed from his eye sockets.
Wang Linlin stared blankly, and felt her body was wet. When she came to her senses, she found that her clothes were soaked with blood without her knowing when.
"Sorry, I've actually been dead for a long time." Jian Lin said calmly with blood all over his face.
Wang Linlin: ????? ?????
...So, he's not a real player either? But then the woman isn't either? Then who is the other player...?
She was destined to get no answer to this question.
As a player who was suspected by the system of not being a good person, she encountered such a crazy high difficulty in the novice level. With her brain, she probably couldn't figure it out even if she racked her brains. The system was really cruel to players with evil tendencies.
Wang Linlin was obviously not willing to give up. She wanted to struggle a little longer, but at this moment she had fallen into a kind of terrified hallucination. She seemed to be submerged in a sea of blood and could not move.
A few seconds later, she fainted again and was dragged offline by the system.
This was the first time Yi Han had seen a player who had failed to clear a level from the perspective of an NPC. Although he didn't know what he saw in the terrifying illusion, he still found it quite fresh. Jian Lin also put away the Book of Horror.
It was Yi Han who suggested doing this final trick on her, and this move did earn Jian Lin several credit points.
"If she dies in this level, will she become an NPC here?" Yi Han asked after they quit the game together and returned home.
"No... She should be determined to have a specific character value, and then serve in a special copy... If the character value is low to a certain level, she may disappear directly." Jian Lin said.
This junior little green tea girl had told Yi Han about her story in the real world before, but Yi Han could tell that she was making it up. It is very likely that she was the one who was jealous of her bestie, framed her, and sowed discord. However, this may not be a capital crime, and this is just his guess. The final decision will depend on the system. Judging from this game alone, Wang Linlin is actually a scheming girl who likes to use coquettish and weak ways to establish her persona and to get men to do things for her. Because she is young, only seventeen or eighteen years old, she is not experienced enough, and she is not smart enough. She has the heart of a green tea girl, but not the ability of a green tea girl...
Yi Han had been mainly trying to scare her, and hadn't done anything substantial to hurt her. Before, Yi Han said he didn't have the points to pay the bill, so he dug out her kidney as collateral, which was of course a lie. He was also lying about the receipt being stolen, as Yi Han had been hiding it, and he had led her back to the supermarket just to brush up on his points (I didn't expect that she would leave Yi Han behind because she was angry, which made it even easier for the NPCs to scare her...), and by the way, he had dealt with the woman who would expose Jian Lin's identity.
That woman is the same one that Yi Han met at the end of the level. It seems that she is a special NPC who is responsible for receiving tasks against "ghost players" in various "novice levels". Although this NPC is also a test for human players, she may be more of a reminder, reminding players to carefully distinguish between real and fake teammates around them. If it weren't for her, it is estimated that no player would be able to find out that "the number of players is 2" is simply a half-true and half-false misleading information. In the final analysis, humans who are assigned to high-difficulty novice games and matched with "ghost players" are only temporarily judged as "likely" to do evil. Of course, there will be misjudgments, so the system will provide an NPC with clues to give players a chance to turn the tables.
Yi Han had gone through the hell-level novice level, and then it was discovered that it was a misjudgment. Later, he played with normal players, but Wang Linlin was obviously not misjudged. After leaving the level, the system will calculate her character value in detail, and even if she is not wiped out by the system, she probably won't have the chance to play with normal players again. This unformed green tea, after being frightened by Yi Han this time, the psychological shadow area is probably not small. But whether she will turn over a new leaf or work hard to grow and become a high-level green tea is not something Yi Han can control. Anyway, he probably won't see her again in the future, and even if he does, she will still be the one who is worried.
After returning to the room in the main god space, the two of them took inventory of what they had received.
This time, Yi Han was just relaxing for the novice level. Since he failed in the task of assisting the player to pass the level, he did not get the 20 points reward. Instead, the system judged that he maliciously disrupted the level, and assigned him a penalty debuff at the beginning of the next level. But because the target of his disruption was a notorious player, the system also gave him a 100-point reward for bravery and exempted him from half of the penalty, indicating that the debuff would still not affect his combat effectiveness, similar to the debuff of women's clothing... Of course, Yi Han was not afraid of this, so he actually earned more than the successful assistance task.
With Yi Han's help, Jian Lin did a great job in this "promotion assessment", earning a lot of GPA and being rated A+.
As a big guy who is S-level in every level, Yi Han also wanted to help him get S at the beginning of the level. But when he was about to knock out the NPC to earn points for Wang Linlin, he remembered that except for the woman on duty at the end, the NPCs in this level were all Jian Lin’s colleagues, and they had a good relationship with each other, so Yi Han didn’t do it... So he got an A+ this time, the only difference was that the points earned by eliminating the NPC were too few.
After the promotion, Jian Lin became a one-star NPC and could go to a one-star level to be on duty. But the system had not yet assigned him which level to go to. In addition, he also received a promotion bonus of several hundred GPA points.
Because Jian Lin was promoted, Yi Han, as a pet owner, also received a few hundred points as a reward. Although it was not as much as the money he made from running a shop, it was better than nothing, so Yi Han didn't think it was too little.
After finishing his harvest with satisfaction, he felt relaxed. Yi Han thought that he could match the "brutal mode" amusement park tomorrow. But before that, he had some guesses that he wanted to confirm.
It was just after midnight when the two of them came out of the checkpoint. Yi Han sent Jian Lin back to the house to sleep, and bought a door leading to the outside world from the store.
Yi Han always felt something was wrong with the squid uncle he met in the underground supermarket. His intuition told him that this man didn't become an NPC because he died in the level...
This feeling came from nowhere. Obviously, human players and ghost NPCs were completely different forces in this escape game, but Yi Han couldn't help but have some confusing doubts since he saw him.
There must be some hidden rules in this game that he doesn't know about, but Yi Han needs to know more information before he can infer the true conclusion.
He installed the door on the wall of his room, put on his hat, and went out.
The street outside the door was still the same, the leaves rustled in the breeze, and players in the community were chatting in groups of three or four as they walked towards the night market. Everything was the same as the last time they went out.
Soon I came to the snack street again. The last time I saw the uncle, his stall was the first one on the right. But this time the person at that position had changed to a middle-aged woman selling hot dry noodles.
Yi Han pulled down the brim of his hat, leaned forward and asked, "Excuse me, where is the boss who used to sell grilled squid here?"
The lady selling hot dry noodles probably didn’t have many customers because the stall was new, so she answered enthusiastically, “He moved. Don’t you know? He even had a few days of promotion before he left. He said it was to give back to old customers. He just left a few days ago.”
Yi Han was stunned when he heard this: "Moving? Which neighborhood did he move to?"
"I don't know about that, but the squid here is really delicious. My niece loves it too. If you want to try it, there's another store further in that sells it. You can try it and see if it suits your taste. Would you like a portion of our hot dry noodles? It's delicious, too." The female boss enthusiastically promoted.
"Well... let's have a bowl of noodles." Yi Han thought and said casually.
That uncle... definitely didn't become an NPC because he died suddenly, otherwise he wouldn't have known in advance that he would leave and offer discounts. But the person who took over the stall doesn't know where he is now, so I guess other vendors don't know either...
So is he alive now? If he really just moved, why can he be an NPC in the level as a human? And if he died, why did he know in advance that he was going to die?
Yi Han couldn't figure it out for a moment. Time was running out, so he took a package of hot dry noodles home. When he left, four or five customers came to the stall, chatting and laughing. Yi Han left in the lively atmosphere of the snack street, and suddenly felt a little dazed.
This world really looks no different from the real world. It seems that many people have settled here, some have made friends, and some have found lovers.
Perhaps after reaching a higher level, you can get more rest time each time you pass a level, and the difficulty of the randomly matched levels is probably linked to your luck value. Perhaps it is this setting that makes most of the players here look very Buddhist and relaxed.
Yi Han has been a person who knows how to work hard and strive for success since he was a child. Because if he doesn't become stronger, someone will bully him, so at first he didn't understand the vacation-like state of these players, but after seeing more of them recently, he feels that he can understand it. Because this kind of peaceful and harmonious feeling is really not bad... It makes him feel much more comfortable than the various intrigues and bullying in the real world.
After a short rest for a day, when Jian Lin returned home after attending company training again, the two prepared to enter the amusement park in "brutal mode".
Before this, because he was afraid that the stupid NPC named "Smart Xiaojiu" would do something bad, Yi Han had checked the ghost forum on Jian Lin's phone several times.
But what you fear will come true... He has been active in the post that scolded player "y" these days. And because what he said about the need for fairness and justice in the game was not wrong, many people calmed down and thought that what he said was indeed reasonable. On the contrary, the poster who posted the post to seek revenge seemed narrow-minded and could not afford to lose... In the end, several NPCs from the "Amusement Park" level also appeared. They expressed their support for Xiaojiu and would never embarrass player "y"... Of course, this statement was criticized by several irritable nitpickers, and these people were not happy either. They immediately said that we will take care of this player "y", and if you have the guts, you can also come to the amusement park and challenge us to a fight.
When Yi Han saw this, he instantly felt overwhelmed.
Judging from this situation, the NPCs in that level should not deliberately let him go...
Except for places like hot springs where one needs to register one's name, in normal levels, the player's name will not be known to the NPCs at the beginning, but Yi Han's appearance had already been remembered by Xiao Jiu.
"System, don't I still have a debuff to receive? Can I choose it myself? I also want a debuff for camouflage appearance, even women's clothing is fine." Yi Han said.
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system:?
Jian Lin: ???
Yi Han: I’ll do anything for points.
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Thank you to the little goblins who cast the tyrant votes or irrigated the nutrient solution for me~
Thanks to the goblins who cast mines: Bai Ze and Ku Gu (3); Leng Xue Meng Leng (2); Mu An, He She Li Xuan Ying, Cui Lu Chang Xiu Qi Pao, Shan Jiao Chui Feng (1);
Thanks to the goblins who irrigated the nutrient solution: Cat Xiaolan 57 bottles; Chenxiang Weiyan Mozhuyi 40 bottles; Hesheli Xuanying, Can I Sleep Before Midnight 20 bottles; Zhimo 15 bottles; Sake Jiuwuganliao., Pu, Shijing, Glass Beads 10 bottles; Light Life ~ Xuan 9 bottles; 15758464 5 bottles; Frozen Watermelon, Pear Youyou 2 bottles; Cui Jiujiu, A Bacteria of Amnesia, Daily Search for Happiness, Suddenly Want to Change a Name 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
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